St. Louis, MO, May 29 2018 … The Anti-Defamation (ADL) today welcomed the arrest and prosecution of a man in connection with the swastika vandalism at the Sunset Hills Cemetery as a possible hate crime in addition to institutional vandalism.
“We stand with the Southern Illinois community and send support to the families of those individuals whose family gravestones were desecrated and whose property was damaged,” shared regional director Karen Aroesty…
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By Melissa Garlick | National Civil Rights Counsel May 22, 2018 Harvard Law & Policy Review Three militia members from southwest Kansas were recently convicted on federal civil rights charges and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction for targeting Somali Muslim immigrants for a plan of mass murder in 2016. On a recording made available to the jury, one of the defendants said: “The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.” The convictions sent an important message of…
May 16, 2018, Washington Post by Nick Miroff and Paul Sonne… The Trump administration is making preparations to hold immigrant children on military bases, according to Defense Department communications, the latest sign the government is moving forward with plans to split up families who cross the border illegally.
According to an email notification sent to Pentagon staffers, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will make site visits at four military…
New York, NY, May 15, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League released a statement today after Facebook for the first time published data detailing its enforcement of the platform’s community standards, including its standards on hate speech.
The following is a statement from Brittan Heller, director of ADL’s Center for Technology and Society:
“We welcome this new level of transparency from Facebook. For us, it underscores the immense challenge we all…
Omaha, NE, May 9, 2018… Our local ADL office received multiple reports of three different flyers posted near Benson, Dundee and UNO on the morning of Monday, May 7th. It appears they were posted sometime during the morning hours where they were quickly removed by engaged citizens. All flyers were spotted and removed by 10AM that morning. The ADL-CRC’s Regional Director, Mary-Beth Muskin issued the following statement:
“This kind of hate does not reflect…
May 06, 2018 Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO and National Director, Anti-Defamation League
To the ADL National Leadership Summit
May 6, 2018, Washington, D.C.
(As prepared for delivery)
Thank you for that kind introduction – and allow me to welcome you to our 2018 National Leadership Summit. As I look out at this room and this incredible crowd, I am proud to share that this is the largest conference of this kind that we have ever had.
It is heartening to see so…
By Brittan Heller | Director for Technology and Society May 02, 2018 WIRED When he testified before Congress last month, FacebookCEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed the problem of using artificial intelligence to identify online hate speech. He said he was optimistic that in five to 10 years, “We will have AI tools that can get into some of the linguistic nuances of different types of content to be more accurate in flagging content for our systems, but today we&rsquo…
May 01, 2018 1) MATTHEW HEIMBACH IS A CO-FOUNDER OF THE NEO-NAZI TRADITIONALIST WORKER PARTY.
Heimbach, his father-in-law, Matthew Parrott, and Tony Hovater founded the Indiana-based Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) in 2015, with the idea of attracting white working-class families to white nationalism. Originally the political arm of the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), Heimbach and Parrott’s previous group, TWP ultimately became a champion of neo-Nazi ideology.
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New York, April 26, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Technology and Society (CTS) has selected an Oxford scholar who works with Google; a leading expert on games and emerging media; and an ordained Episcopal minister working in diverse communities in Chicago as its inaugural class of Belfer Fellows.
The Belfer Fellowship program supports ADL’s efforts to create innovative solutions to counter online hate and ensure justice and fair…
by Pam Monsky…
More than 100 students from area high schools, middle schools and elementary schools celebrated at the ADL-CRC Plains States Region No Place for Hate® initiative end of the school year rally at Goodwill Benson Gardens recently. For over fifteen years, the ADL’s No Place for Hate® initiative has been supporting safe and inclusive school environments by promoting school activities that help to reduce bullying, name-calling and other…
April 26, 2018 David Andrew Weinberg, Ph.D.
Washington Representative for International Affairs
Anti-Defamation League
Hearing Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
Washington, D.C.
April 26, 2018
2:00 pm Chairmen Poe and Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Members Keating and Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittees: thank you on behalf of the Anti-Defamation…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | April 17, 2018 The Times of Israel On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion stood on a podium at the Tel Aviv Museum and announced the establishment of the State of Israel with a booming recitation of a Declaration of Independence.
When Ben Gurion made this dramatic declaration, few would have guaranteed that this fledgling state, surrounded by hostile armies, would survive seven decades, much less develop and thrive into a modern, diverse, dynamic and…
In the aftermath of an incident involving two African-American men at a Starbucks coffee shop in Philadelphia, the Anti-Defamation League, along with our partners in the civil rights community, has been asked to help develop an anti-bias curriculum for a training program that will be rolled out to 175,000 employees in the company’s 8,000 stores nationwide.
ADL will be providing resources, knowledge and expertise to the effort, alongside our longtime…
By Jonathan Greenblatt | ADL CEO and National Director and Dan Meridor | Former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel April 16, 2018 The Jerusalem Post About two weeks ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the surprising and welcome announcement that Israel had reached an agreement with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on the issue of the African asylum seekers. And, just as surprisingly, he announced a few hours later that the plan was suspended, and within a day, canceled.
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by Pam Monsky…
On Tuesday, March 20, the ADL-CRC hosted the First Annual Jule M. Newman Law Enforcement Summit on Extremism.
Special guest speaker, Dr. Mark Pitcavage, Senior Research Fellow with ADL’s Center on Extremism, and an extremism and terrorism expert with decades of experience, gave the keynote address at the Omaha Police Department Training Center to a capacity crowd of 50 law enforcement professionals. The Summit also…
By CHARLIE CLARKE • MAR 5, 2018 KBIA Radio All Things Considered
http://kbia.org/post/missouri-experts-respond-hate-report#stream/0
The Southern Poverty Law Center released its 2017: The Year in Hate and Extremism report, and the number of hate groups in Missouri went down from 24 to 18. Experts I spoke with said that the decrease in hate groups doesn’t necessarily signify a decrease in hate.
“Sometimes those numbers are…
By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs March 18, 2018 The 6th Global Forum on Combating Anti-Semitism, convening this week in Jerusalem, could not come at a more critical moment for the global Jewish community. The conference, sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, brings leading international experts, including representatives from ADL, to participate in panel discussions and conversations on the current state of global anti-Semitism.
This year’s…
By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs March 12, 2018 The Bulgarian people defied their Nazi-allied government during the Holocaust and saved Bulgaria’s Jewish community of almost 50,000 people. Their heroic actions 75 years ago show the power of standing up and standing together.
The collective rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews comprised many acts of heroism. Bulgarian Orthodox church leaders campaigned among the people and protested the government…
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL |
No one should be surprised at the latest report from the Anti-Defamation League that incidents of anti-Semitism surged last year.
And no one should take the report lightly.
According to figures released last week by the ADL (https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/anti-semitic-incidents-surged-nearly-60-in-2017-according-to-new-adl-report), 2017 showed the largest single-year increase in anti-Semitic incidents on record,…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | March 01, 2018 Medium In recent times, there has been one constant in anti-Semitism in America: Louis Farrakhan. His lacerating speeches over more than three decades and more from his pulpit and perch at the Nation of Islam have repeatedly placed Jews at the center of conspiracy theories blaming them for everything from controlling the banks and media to engineering the slave trade.
The longtime leader of the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan’s name has become…